Friday, February 28, 2020

Re: Remove security/keepassx

On Sat Feb 22, 2020 at 03:30:32PM +0200, lists@wrant.com wrote:
> Sat, 22 Feb 2020 07:41:21 +0100 Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org>
> > What do you think about the idea of deleting keepassx and set a pkgpath
> > in keepassxc?
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> Thanks for keeping up on top of the work with QT5, and KDE in general.
>
> I think we should keep keepassx a bit more due to some vulnerabilities
> in keepassxc in the not so very distant past, and insufficient time to
> advance keepassx related software, incl on other systems to keepassxc.

Which vulnerabilities?

>
> What do you think about keeping both for a while more & revisit later?
>
> Kind regards,
> Anton Lazarov
> MScEng EECSIT
>
> > Here is a quote from the keepassxc FAQ:
> >
> > Q: Why KeePassXC instead of KeePassX?
> > A: KeePassX is an amazing password manager, but hasn't seen much active
> > development for quite a while. Many good pull requests were never merged
> > and the original project is missing some features which users can expect
> > from a modern password manager. Hence, we decided to fork KeePassX to
> > continue its development and provide you with everything you love about
> > KeePassX plus many new features and bugfixes.
> >
> > -- https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-keepassx
> >
> >
> > Everything keepassx can do, so can keepassxc and more. "File format
> > compatibility with KeePass2, KeePassX, MacPass, KeeWeb and many others
> > (KDBX 3.1 and 4.0)"
> >
> > It feels so right!
> >
> > RS
> >
> >
> > Index: Makefile
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/ports/security/keepassxc/Makefile,v
> > retrieving revision 1.27
> > diff -u -p -u -p -r1.27 Makefile
> > --- Makefile 20 Jan 2020 06:28:12 -0000 1.27
> > +++ Makefile 22 Feb 2020 06:33:57 -0000
> > @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ COMMENT = management tool for password a
> >
> > V = 2.5.3
> > DISTNAME = keepassxc-${V}
> > +REVISION = 0
> >
> > CATEGORIES = security
> >
> > Index: pkg/PLIST
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/ports/security/keepassxc/pkg/PLIST,v
> > retrieving revision 1.18
> > diff -u -p -u -p -r1.18 PLIST
> > --- pkg/PLIST 20 Jan 2020 06:28:12 -0000 1.18
> > +++ pkg/PLIST 22 Feb 2020 06:33:57 -0000
> > @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
> > @comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.18 2020/01/20 06:28:12 rsadowski Exp $
> > +@pkgpath security/keepassx
> > @bin bin/keepassxc
> > @bin bin/keepassxc-cli
> > %%browser%%
> >
>

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